The Snowflake Chronicles

Echoes of Thunder

17 Kamal 163 B.E. - August 17, 2006 A.D.

I keep hearing a rumbling like distant thunder, but there are no clouds in the sky. The echoes don't come on a regular basis, but at random intervals. Since the echoes aren't that close together and there are no clouds, they are probably from jets either commercial o
r fighters. Normally I can tell the difference, but the distance does something to the echoes and I can't tell the difference. Or maybe its just my imagination.

I keep hearing the rumbling of distant thunder, but there are no clouds in the sky. Maybe that would work better as the beginning of a story. The problem is where do I take it from here, do I make it the echo of a "distant thunder", the engine of a fighter jest, of a spaceship entering the atmosphere, or of a meteor or comet breaking through the atmosphere. I have never written an "end of the world" story, so it might be a good exercise.

I keep hearing the rumbling of distance thunder,
but there are no clouds in the sky.

I could us that as the beginning of a poem. However I still don't know what to write next. I don't think the problem is writers' block, it more likely I just haven't figured out what I want to do with the sentence yet. I go through this periodically, come up with a line or a sentence that sounds like a good beginning of something, but then can't get any further. Maybe I should just take all the line and put them together in one poem and but done with it. At least that way I would have the lines used and not saved in some file taking up space. Actually if it were just one file, there would be no problem. I have several files with just one or two lines in them that sound good but lead nowhere.